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In a first for Australia, a copyright owner has been successful in forcing an internet service provider (ISP) to hand over the contact details of internet account holders of about 4,700 IP addresses that have been identified as having been used to download pirate versions of the movie Dallas Buyers Club. In Dallas Buyers Club LLC v iiNet Limited [2015] FCA 317,

Late last week four people were arrested in Auckland for extradition to the United States as part of international copyright infringement proceedings brought by the United States Government in what they describe as “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the Unites States”. The case according to the US Justice Department “directly targets